And if he continues to play like this, he deserves it. He was super ballsy for turning that deal down.
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And if he continues to play like this, he deserves it. He was super ballsy for turning that deal down.
MLB blackout rules are beyond ridiculous. I live in Biuffalo, we don't even have a team, yet Arizona/Cubs is blacked out? Why? I can get Dodgers games most of the time, but not Angels?
Enough of this nonsense, MLB. Drop blackout rules, like the NFL did.
Enough of this nonsense, MLB. Drop blackout rules, like the NFL did.
The Reds are so bad that they just pitched a no hitter and lost
And it doesn't even officially count as a no-hitter because they only pitched 8 innings.
By the way, can we talk about how the AL ERA leader is making $727.5K? I'm talking about Nestor Cortes Jr. or as I like to call him, Greg Maddux redux
LOL, Albert Pujols is pitching now. A game so out of control that neither team want to waste pitchers.
That's gotta be a first. But I would've thought that's an unwritten rule or something, putting a position player out when you're up by a lot
Another story to tell at his HOF induction ceremony. I watched him play many times at Busch during the first ten years (his best) and he was just amazing. The expectation was so high every time he came to bat, and he delivered on it many, many times.
We're very privileged to be able to watch players like that in person. Players of that caliber don't come along very often, so you need to really savor their performances when they're at the peak of their powers. For me, that player was Barry Bonds: you didn't dare leave your seat to buy a beer or garlic fries and miss a Bonds AB.
The Red Sox have had an awful start to the season… now 13-21. And thats with the three best bats on the team — Devers, Martinez and Bogaerts — hitting over .300, which tells you just how bad the rest of the offense has been.
They do that first-to-last, last-to-first thing better than any other team I’ve ever seen. And they always seem to have the talent to be competitive, that’s what’s so strange about it.
Agree 100%. Watching Albert and Yadi for those years I lived in STL was a privilege indeed. I’m counting on Molina getting into the Hall along with Pujols.
Teams in the big markets, Boston, NY, LA, Chicago should never be bad, with all the cash they have. Don't understand why Boston is so up and down every season. Or why the Cubs suck all the time.
Some combination of cheap owners and/or incompetent executives, usually.
The salary cap / luxury tax structure keeps the rich teams from spending infinitely, and I assume there's still a lot of inter-owner peer pressure to not overspend on players and drive salaries up for everyone else ("collusion" by any other name).
That, and teams that are really good for a long time don't get high draft picks to replenish their farm systems. Somehow the Dodgers managed to balance major league success with a strong prospect pipeline for a while, though that appears to be mostly Farhan Zaidi's doing, and they've gone more towards trading prospects for established talent and signing big free agents under Andrew Friedman.
What will go down as a worse contract? Trevor Story for the Red Sox, or Jacoby Ellsbury for the Yankees?
It happens several times a season. It's not a mercy thing, teams don't want to waste pitcher's arms on a game that's a forgone conclusion.
I suspect Trevor Story will turn out all right for the Sox, he’s showing signs of life with a couple of home runs in recent games. If players like Kike Hernandez and Alex Verdugo start hitting as well the Red Sox will be ok.
But goodness gracious to be 10 games behind the Yankees after just 30 games played, and foot of the division behind even the Orioles, that’s not just “a bad start” its the beginning of a disaster.
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Nah. Happens quite often. Save an actual pitchers arm, or you're out of pitchers so you get someone who may have pitched back in the day to mop up.
Aggravating that we, The Giants, were on the bad side of that. The Cards seem to have our number so far this season.
I know it happens with opposing teams down by a ton a lot, but I've never seen it the other way around. I watch the Yankees and they never really get into those scenarios a lot.
I think they were hoping 2021 was an outlier, but it ain't looking too good. But a walk and a home run yesterday was a good start.
The Red Sox just creeped up to 4th. The Orioles are back in their familiar position of last in the East.
As great as the Yankees are playing, they still have a lot of room to improve. Which is scary to think about. If they can trade for someone like Wilson Contreras for catcher, that fills a big hole in their lineup. And replace Gallo too. Every once in a while, he shows promise, but then he strikes out 4 times like he did last night.